Last Friday, Lakshmi Ganapathi’s son turned 5, and finally became eligible for his first Pfizer COVID shot. Ganapathi’s family had been anticipating that moment for more than a year, yet as of late, s

Ukrainians Find That Relatives in Russia Don’t Believe It’s a War Many Ukrainians are encountering a confounding and frustrating backlash from family members in Russia who have bought into the officia

Recycling is good. Just ask Apple. After the company was repeatedly called out by Greenpeace for poor performance on environmental issues, it began a process to detail all the ways it was being green,

The new iPad Air. The last time I wrote about the iPad Air in October 2020, I explained how its fourth-generation model intrigued me again. A year and a half later, here I am, once again fascinated by

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Enlarge / You'll see the Mac Studio's blinking orange SOS light if you try to change its SSD modules. Here's why. Luke Miani Apple's new Mac Studio desktop began arriving in customers' hands last week

Brace yourselves, allergy sufferers – research shows pollen season is going to get a lot longer and more intense with climate change. Our study finds that the U.S. will face up to a 200% increase in t

This article was originally published by The Conversation . Brace yourselves, allergy sufferers: New research shows that pollen season is going to get a lot longer and more intense with climate change

The United States is supporting Ukraine with aid and weapons and punishing Russian aggression with financial and economic sanctions. But the United States can do more to resolve the global crisis caus

The introduction of the Mac Studio this week got me thinking about how strange the final few years of the Intel-based 27-inch iMac were. When the 27-inch iMac was refreshed in 2020 we all knew it was

Teresa Leong had known for years that her kitchen scraps weren’t really trash. But at first, she wasn’t sure what to do with them. Sometimes she’d just toss a bell pepper into the bushes, figuring it

In the latter half of the 2010s, the Mac was having a bad time. The small cylindrical Mac Pro introduced in 2013 was a dead end. The butterfly-switch keyboards used throughout the entire MacBook lineu

The Mac Studio is the first entirely new entry in the Mac product line in a very long time. It’s a kind of Mac— the mid-range-desktop —that used to be common, but vanished shortly after Steve Jobs ret

Apple’s most popular devices come with their own displays. The iPhone, iPad, MacBook, and iMac can all be used right out of the box. In some ways, it’s the ultimate triumph of the original iMac’s “the

The iPad family has sort of settled in to a consistent lineup for a few years, with five models. Three of them are distinctive: iPad, no adjective: the low cost one ($330 starting price) iPad Mini: th

The biggest institutional difference between Apple and Microsoft is, famously , taste. Another, though, is their contrasting approaches to backward compatibility. Microsoft bends over backward to main

The introduction of the Mac Studio this week got me thinking about how strange the final few years of the Intel-based 27-inch iMac were. When the 27-inch iMac was refreshed in 2020 we all knew it was

As part of Apple’s spring “Peek Performance” product event this morning, Apple unveiled the fourth and final member of the M1 family of Apple Silicon SoCs, the M1 Ultra. Aimed squarely at desktops – s

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Well, that was exciting, wasn’t it? Here are my quick-hit reactions to Apple’s March 8 event, at which the company updated the iPhone SE and iPad Air, rolled out a brand-new Mac and external display,

Updated at 1:00 p.m. ET on February 26, 2022. After American misadventures in Iraq and Afghanistan, many are rightly hesitant to respond militarily to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine . They don’t want to

Before he became the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky played the part on television. He created and starred in a comedy series, Servant of the People . His character, a high-school history tea

Posted on February 26, 2022 Posted by John Scalzi By now, I probably don’t have to tell you about the Ukrainian soldiers on Snake Island, who, confronted with a Russian navy ship which demanded their

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Paul Krugman How Crypto Became the New Subprime Jan. 27, 2022 By Opinion Columnist If the stock market isn’t the economy — which it isn’t — then cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin really, really aren’t the

Pour one out for Delta, the SARS-CoV-2 variant that Season 3 of the pandemic seems intent on killing off. After holding star billing through the summer and fall of 2021, Delta’s spent the past several

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On Wednesday, I linked to an analysis, from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, of Substack’s hosting of fringe and extremist publications. I had been sitting on that story for a week or so as I was

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Getty Images/fStop Anna North is a senior correspondent for Vox, where she covers American family life, work, and education. Previously, she was an editor and writer at the New York Times. She is also

Posted on January 28, 2022 Posted by John Scalzi Posting here for archive purposes. In an email, I was asked, given the rise of book bans in schools/libraries, if it made sense for me/other authors to

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A woman walks past a mural of a flying white dove dropping Covid-19 vaccine vials in Rome, Italy, in April 2021. The next big challenge for Covid-19 vaccines is to develop one to cover all variants, a

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If you go out seeking to learn from their proponents why blockchains and the systems built atop them are apparently the future of our web, you’ll begin to see some common themes. Two of the ones I see

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For Coronavirus Testing, the Nose May Not Always Be Best As Omicron spreads, some experts are calling for a switch to saliva-based tests, which may detect infections days earlier than nasal swabs do.